Tag Archives: Mansfield TX

Five to ten percent of preschoolers and 25 percent of school-aged children have vision problems. However, early detection allows for treatment to begin before the child experiences difficulty in school due to poor vision, or before any permanent damage has been done to the eye(s). At Heritage Eye Care, we strive to provide the highest quality of care so that your child can achieve optimal vision and eye health that does not affect their school work or other everyday activities. Our pediatric optometrist in Mansfield TX focuses on kid-friendly eye exams, along with medical and surgical treatment for common pediatric vision problems.

The American Optometric Association (AOA) recommends that infants have their first eye exam at six months of age. Children should be re-examined at age three, and again just before they enter the first grade. Scheduling your child’s eye exam is crucial as many basic skills required in a child’s learning are associated with good eyesight and wearing the proper prescription of children’s eyeglasses, such as near and distance vision, binocular (two eyes) coordination, peripheral awareness, and hand-eye coordination. The AOA suggests that children who do not require vision correction should receive an eye exam every two years. Otherwise, children who do wear corrective lenses should have their vision evaluated annually. Comprehensive exams also test visual acuity, eye tracking and focusing skills, as well as detect common pediatric vision problems such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, dyslexia, color blindness, congenital cataracts, strabismus (crossed eye), and amblyopia (lazy eye). In fact, amblyopia affects about four million people in the United States. Our pediatric optometrist in Mansfield TX will also check for eye disease during your child’s infant eye exam, as well as assess how their eyes work together, and evaluate their eyes as an indicator of their overall health.

If you would like to learn more about common pediatric vision problems, we highly recommend that you visit our practice’s main website to browse through some additional, detailed information that you might find useful. Please call Heritage Eye Care today if you have any questions regarding pediatric eye exams, or would like to schedule an appointment with our pediatric optometrist in Mansfield TX.

Glaucoma is an eye disease that can affect anyone at any age. And because it forms and progresses silently, without obvious symptoms until it is more advanced, you can end up suffering from eye damage or vision loss if you don’t have a yearly eye exam here at Heritage Eye Care so that it can be detected at an early stage by our glaucoma doctor in Mansfield TX.

The cause of glaucoma is excessive internal eye pressure that results form an imbalance between the amount of fluid your eyes create and the amount they drain. Under normal circumstances, the fluid circulates and drains, without any complications. But with glaucoma, the fluid build up and that leads to the increase in pressure. Serious damage to your optic nerve can eventually occur, and vision loss or even blindness is possible. Symptoms of glaucoma include loss of vision to any degree, eye redness, eye pain, tunnel vision, seeing halos that surround light, and nausea or vomiting, especially when accompanied by one or more of the other listed signs. Our glaucoma doctor in Mansfield TX will do a thorough exam with tests such as tonometry, which measures your internal eye pressure. A field vision test, visual acuity test, and any others necessary to form a diagnosis will also be conducted. If it turns out that you do have glaucoma, the appropriate treatment will be identified. This will depend on the severity of the disease. Correcting the imbalance is key, and this can be done with special eye drops that reduce the amount of fluid you produce, laser treatment that increases the efficiency of drainage, or microsurgery that creates a new channel for the fluid to drain from.

Let our glaucoma doctor in Mansfield TX help you to keep your eyes healthy and strong by contacting our office and scheduling an eye exam to get out ahead of glaucoma or any other eye disease that could be affecting you.

Can you remember the last time that you had a vision test or eye test? If not, it is definitely time that you made an appointment to see our expert optometrist at our eye care practice, Heritage Eye Care. It is easy to take your good eye sight for granted. The problem is that many common eye diseases present no obvious symptoms in the early stages when vision can be saved. Having a Mansfield TX eye exam may actually save your vision from preventable damage using eye testing and early diagnosis.

Our owner and expert optometrist at Heritage Eye Care is Dr. Nancy Opara. Dr. Opara specializes in general vision, medical eye care and emergency eye care treatment. Our practice is open to all members of the family. Dr. Opara also has a post graduate certificate in caring for glaucoma. Glaucoma is a very serious eye disease that can cause blindness. Once vision is lost to glaucoma it generally cannot be restored. However, the great news is that with a Mansfield TX eye exam by our optometrist, our doctor will be able to provide early diagnosis for this and other potentially harmful eye diseases and disorders. If glaucoma is detected in its early stages, our optometrist will be able to provide treatments that will halt the disease in its tracks. In fact, there will be no reason that you will ever need to lose sight to glaucoma. However, if glaucoma is diagnosed in the later stages, you will need be referred to an ophthalmologist for further treatment. Glaucoma is often treated using laser surgery. However, treatment does focus on halting progression of the disease; unfortunately, there is no known cure or way to reverse damage.

During our Mansfield TX eye exam, Dr. Opara will also do a vision test and screen for many other eye diseases. During the vision test she will see if you have any refractive eye problems including nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism. If any of these conditions are found she will be able to easily correct the problem with prescriptions for eyeglasses or contact lenses. Other eye diseases that will be screened for using various eye tests and state-of-the-art equipment are: macular degeneration; diabetic retinopathy; cataracts; and other corneal, retinal and macular problems. When it comes to eye problems, early diagnosis is the key to preventing serious eye problems. Even a relatively common and simple eye condition such as dry eye can cause damage to the cornea if not diagnosed and treated early. If you would like to see our expert and highly-trained optometrist, contact our office today.

If you are in need of glaucoma eye care in Mansfield TX, by far the best place for you to visit is Heritage Eye Care. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in adults today, and so it is a condition that should be taken and treated very seriously. Glaucoma is a term that refers to not just one, but several related eye conditions that have to do with damage due to increased pressure on the optic nerve. When it comes to glaucoma eye care in Mansfield TX, we highly stress the importance of prevention. A crucial part of prevention involves keeping up with regular eye exams, especially if you are at an increased risk of developing glaucoma. You are at a higher risk of developing glaucoma if you are over the age of about sixty, and/or if you have a family history of the illness. If you are at risk, we can provide you with glaucoma screenings as part of your regular comprehensive eye exams here at Heritage Eye Care. During glaucoma screenings, we will check your intraocular pressure to see if it is at an abnormal level. We will also evaluate your vision to see if there are any changes that are out of the ordinary. If we find that you are exhibiting warning signs of developing glaucoma, we will begin planning treatment for glaucoma eye care in Mansfield TX as soon as possible. Early detection greatly increases the likelihood that we will be able to preserve your vision as your glaucoma progresses, and so early detection is always our goal here at Heritage Eye Care. You can trust that you are in good hands that that we will give you the high quality glaucoma eye care in Mansfield TX that you need to keep your eyes healthy and your vision clear as you advance in age.

If you would like to learn more about what glaucoma eye care in Mansfield TX entails, or if you would like to learn more about any of the other many eye care services and products available to you here at Heritage Eye Care, we highly recommend that you visit our practice’s main website to browse through some additional, detailed information that you might find useful. If you have any specific questions or concerns that we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact the staff here directly.